A MUM-of-three has claimed her once angelic baby turned into Genghis Khan overnight, regularly slaps her and eats Toblerone’s whole.
Laura Mazza, a mummy blogger from Melbourne, shares very relatable snaps of parenting with her 33,000 Instagram followers.
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Laura, who runs a blog called Mum On The Run, recently shared a photo of her middle child, Sofia, chomping into a chocolate bar, as she claimed she’s turned ‘feral’.
She wrote: “My second child came into this world so harmoniously.
“She fed well, she slept like an angel, she was perfect.
“After my first no sleeper, boob rejecter, I truly felt like I was hashtag ‘blessed.”
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But that all changed when Sofia grew up, and she turned into a wild child, and refuses to be disciplined despite Laura’s best efforts.
She said: “You know that kid you see throwing a tantrum, being a real s**, biting their parents bums, lifting up their mothers dress & throwing shit everywhere, screaming “F**K!” at the top of their lungs & you think, oh thank god that kid isn’t mine… well, that’s her now.
“That’s my perfect sleeper right there. My angel. she turned into Genghis Khan. She is 10/10 feral, & I would not purchase again.”
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She called her “stubborn, wild and defiant”, saying: “Disapproving looks from strangers & comments about disciplining her is like white noise. It puts me to sleep.”
And Laura can’t relax either for fear of what Sofia’s getting up to.
She explained: “When you tell her to stop running, she hears, run faster, knock down a shelf of sanitary pads & bounces into someone with a drink spilling it all over them.
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“If I relax for 2 seconds I know to ask ‘where’s Sofia?’ because she’s a runner that would make Usain Bolt look like a power walker.”
She said fellow parents who have ‘feral’ children know that it’s almost impossible to discipline them.
Laura said: “And I try, I do, I try to give her the stink eye & stern voice that scared me when I was a child.
“I’ll hover like a helicopter and I’ll tell her, don’t you touch that, & she’ll look me in the eye & ever so slowly, touch it with the tip of her finger & makes a noise that would summon the Blair witch.
“She is the Blair witch.”
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Sometimes she thinks she’s getting through to Sofia and the little girl shows off her clamer, loving side, only to lull Laura into a false sense of security.
Laura admitted: “Sometimes though, she looks at you so lovingly with a spark in her eyes & you think, oh she loves me, she’s so beautiful, & she will raise her little hands up to me like she wants a hug & then slap me.
“Slap. Me. She does ask me if I’m okay after she’s power punched me in the face though, so I mean the compassion is there right?”
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Laura says she salutes any other mum who’s grappling with a feral child, as she warned any kid could switch from angelic to angry.
She added: “To those saying ‘my child is nothing like that’… congratulations, a rude awakening is coming for you.
“I was once you, now I don’t just eat my own words, my feral child snatches them from my mouth and eats them for me.”
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Hundreds of people have liked the post, as it struck a chord with parents struggling with their own ‘feral’ children.
One mum said: “My second born as well. Minus the ever sleeping part.”
Another wrote: “This sounds just like my 4 year old boy. He does the EXACT pretend hug/face slap and runs like the wind.”
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A third admitted: “Yep, accurate description of my youngest, now 4 y old. I feel you!”
While this mum commented: “My third is my feral child. But never an angel. Came out screaming and hasn’t stopped.
“She’s gonna do big things one day. I just hope they’re good big things.”
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